Healthy Fall Foods Help Keep Immune System Strong

Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts of food and diet can help play a positive role in keeping you healthier this Fall and Winter season.

This time of year is a time when a person’s energy (“Qi”) can be somewhat unstable. Now is the time to strengthen your Qi as your body prepares for winter. Our diet, and how we eat, plays a huge role in our health.

During this Fall/Winter time of year we experience an abundance of holidays, most of which have many traditions involving family get-togethers and dinners, office parties, social get-togethers, etc. Holidays and festivities always seem to end up involving some sort of eating, with lots of food, it seems.

Many of our holiday traditions involve a lot of sweets – cookies, pies, cakes, candies, and other sweet treats. All of this means that to help keep ourselves as healthy as possible we need to really focus on what we eat and be sure we include a lot of seasonal, healthy foods — and not fall into a diet trap of letting all these sweets over-ride our diets.

Here are some tips for eating as healthy as possible during the Fall and Winter months — and trying to balance out all the sweet treats that are sure to tempt us all.

Eat different foods than you may have eaten in the summertime, such as beans, seeds, gluten-free grains, proteins, meats, fish, dairy and nuts. But be careful not too much, as these foods can cause ‘dampness’

Sprouted grain hot cereals are economical and then served with homemade nut milks

Seasonal acupuncture treatments help keep the immune system healthy

In addition to paying special attention to the foods we eat and trying to be sure that the foods we are mostly eating are the best for the season — and for our health — it is a good idea to get a seasonal acupuncture “tune-up” from your licensed acupuncturist to help strengthen your immune system.

To help keep a person’s immune system strong, even a few acupuncture treatments annually — as the seasons change — can go a long way to help keep a person’s immune system healthy.

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